The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out a new "war on drugs" as a response to the assassination of a regional mayor who was shot at a Day of the Dead celebration, a brazen killing that has sparked national outrage.

President Sheinbaum stressed that violence should not be answered with more violence and said that actions must remain within the law.

Some see the security plan, which the Mexican president rolled out after the murder of the Uruapan mayor shocked the country, as more of the same ineffective politics.

A hitman linked to the CJNG shot dead the mayor of Uruapan, who had arrested the group’s leader in August